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Wednesday night, the Phoenix City Council voted to approve a $50-million deal that will fund design and pre-construction costs for Valley Metro’s expansion in South Phoenix. It’s the latest step towards creating a new offshoot of the light rail, which will run south down Central Avenue, starting at Jefferson Street and ending at Baseline Road. “I’m excited about the light rail — I think it’s going to provide a lot more opportunities for residents,” Isabel Garcia, who grew up in South Phoenix and now works as a social worker there, told the City Council. It’s hard to find fault with Valley Metro’s choice to expand the light rail down South Central: The surrounding community is home to a lot of low-wage workers who rely on public transit to get around, and have historically been underserved in that regard. Continue to Article

April 20, 2017 11:30:am EST

Highlights of Tuesday's Major League Baseball games: Cubs 9, Brewers 7 The Chicago Cubs pounded out 14 hits, including home runs from Kyle Schwarber and Miguel Montero, as they snapped a four-game losing streak with a 9-7 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday in a Wrigley Field slugfest. The Cubs rallied from a 7-4 deficit with a four-run sixth keyed by Albert Almora's two-run pinch single and Jon Jay's RBI triple. Continue to Article

April 19, 2017 3:12:am EST

If last season Jake Lamb announced his arrival as a big-league player, early this year he seems determined to up his game. Lamb hit the go-ahead solo home run in the eighth inning and David Peralta added a run-scoring triple in the ninth to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night. ''He has worked very hard to be a complete hitter, has worked very hard to be a complete player,'' said Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo. Continue to Article

April 18, 2017 2:52:am EST

The Milwaukee Brewers' investment in Eric Thames is paying off in MLB, while Ivan Nova impressed in a loss for the Pittsburgh Pirates. With a third-inning home run against the Chicago Cubs on Monday, Thames has hit a homer in five straight games, matching Continue to Article

April 18, 2017 1:20:am EST

“The Phenomenon” by Rick Ankiel and Tim Brown. Excerpted from “The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life” by Rick Ankiel and Tim Brown. Copyright © 2017. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary Continue to Article

April 17, 2017 9:36:pm EST